Re: lynx-dev lynx 2.8.2 on solaris via proxy - problem

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> Hello, 
>  
> I'm writing to inform you of a problem I discovered using lynx behind a 
> proxy server. 
>  
> After I defined our proxy in the cfg file and ran lynx, the proxy server 
> complained that lynx was using a non-compliant request structure. Instead of 
> asking the proxy for HTTP://www.XYZ.com <HTTP://www.XYZ.com>  it asks for 
> file:/www.XYZ.com. 
>  
> we are using the netscape proxy server. But other proxy servers I know off 
> all require a valid URL not file:/ ... 
>  
> Another (minor) issue: on unix all environment variables are defined 
> UPPERCASE (by convention) lynx expects lower case only env vars. 

by convention - usually.  When this came up before, we were told that
the lowercase variables are a convention of some package (other than Lynx).
  
> Thanks 
>  
> Steven Hodorov 
> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>   


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